MATE Desktop 1.18 released by completing GTK3+ migration

Mr Martin Wimpress, developer at MATE project has announced availability of MATE 1.18, latest stable release of traditional looking, modern desktop environment which was initially started as a fork of outdated GNOME 2.x project.

The main highlight of MATE 1.18 is completion of GTK3+ migration which was started a while back. This release includes desktop applications and other components built against GTK3+ by removing outdated and deprecated framework api calls.

Following are notable changes/highlights of MATE 1.18 release:

Entire applications and other desktop components are build against Gt3+

Requires GTK+ >= 3.14.

All GTK2+ code has been dropped including the --with-gtk build option.